# 1803 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1803 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (until 11 October); Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (from 4 November)
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – vacant until 1804
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley
* Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
* Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot (until 4 June); Samuel Horsley
* Bishop of St Davids – Lord George Murray (until 3 June); Thomas Burgess (from 24 July)

## Events

* 26 June - First public assembly of the South Wales Unitarian Association.
* Robert Saunderson of Liverpool settles at Bala and becomes official printer to the Calvinistic Methodist Society, working for Thomas Charles.
* 17 July - Thomas Burgess is consecrated Bishop of St David's.
* September - A new company, the Union Iron World Company, is formed to run Rhymney ironworks, after Benjamin Hall takes it over.
* date unknown
** Rhys Davies (Y Glun Bren) preaches from the mounting-block in front of the Black Lion Inn at Talybont in Cardiganshire, beginning Independent Methodist activity there.
** Pascoe Grenfell contracts to trade in copper in the Swansea area.
** Thomas Johnes sets up a private printing press to publish translations of French medieval chronicles.
** Dunraven Castle is built, near Southerndown.
** Benjamin Heath Malkin begins his travels in South Wales.
** Paeonia mascula is discovered growing on the island of Steep Holm - the only species of peony native to the British Isles.

## Arts and literature
### New books

* J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire
* Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Barddoniaeth
* William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg

### Music
## Births

* 10 May - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, industrialist and politician, owner of Margam Castle (died 1890)
* 29 June - Peter Maurice, priest and writer (died 1878)
* 15 September - Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan, politician, historian and antiquary (died 1888)
* 17 October - Samuel Holland, industrialist (died 1892)
* 18 October - Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st baronet, Liberal politician (died 1887)
* 23 November - Edward Edwards, zoologist (died 1879)
* 25 December - Sir Hugh Owen Owen, 2nd Baronet (died 1891).
* date unknown
** Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (died 1868)
** Owain Meirion, balladeer (died 1868)

## Deaths

* 2 January - Sir Richard Perryn, judge, 79
* 29 April - Thomas Jones, landscape painter, 60
* 3 June - Lord George Murray, Bishop of St David's and developer of the UK's first optical telegraph, 42
* 28 September - Ralph Griffiths, editor and publisher, 83?
* 11 October - Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 58
* date unknown - Thomas Evans, London bookseller, 64